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you can't give me shit for wanting homelander so bad okay the man literally moans when you put your fingers in his mouth like what more could you POSSIBLY want
The light/dark split is literally determined by the parts of himself thomas does and doesnt like and I feel like not everyone understands that??
Like,, Thomas does want his mental illness to define him. Okay Virgil goes in the dark. Thomas wants being a good person to define him and wants to be sure of what that means. Okay Patton goes in the light. Like it's literally just determined by what Character Thomas does and doesnt want to be known for. WHICH CHANGES AS YOU GROW!!!!! both as a person and in general. He wants to bring mental health into more content? Cool, now Virgil isnt being shunned and can come into the light. Being selfish has a time and a place? Okay Janus can join the party too. Like its not a question of whether or not the sides are good people bc they are not,, actually,,,, people. It's just a matter of whether Thomas wants to consider that an important part of himself.
Everyone has a dark side. Personally mine is I'm selfish and can get angry at times. But I dont want to be known for those things so that makes them my "dark sides." Even though I could stand to be selfish when it comes to my limits and theres things worth being angry about. They arent inherently bad traits they're just parts of me I dont want to be known by or give too much of a foothold to.
That's what the dark sides are. That's what makes a dark side. I'd like to see more of that around here.
Lowkey pissed off by how vampires are always written within this ‘I love you but I want to hurt you so badly’ narrative? Like first of all that’s just an excuse to get young & beautiful women killed or brutalized on screen, because somehow it’s never a 70-yo female vampire struggling to resist her 50-yo male librarian lover, is it? And secondly - so you like someone you could potentially eat, so what? Happens every damn day everywhere. Are dogs secretly yearning to tear our heads off? Are people who own pet rabbits like ‘Oh you’re so fluffy and I love you, but man, I want to break your neck and roast you so much’. Lots of animals are carnivores, many of us eat meat, and yet when a bond emerges - of friendship, love, or strategical alliance - the thought of eating one another fades away. The ‘food’ and ‘not-food’ categories are way more complicated than just ‘Would go well with chesse’?? So please - I’m begging the young writers out there to stop using this trope. Let’s have Millennials kill (bad) vampires on top of diamonds and napkins. Thanks.
the greeks and romans really were like "we're going to sculpt the most caked up statue anyone has ever seen." and they were so right for that
What is Balance of the Force?
So, balance, obviously it refers to balance between good and evil. Good is the light side, evil is the dark side. Therefore, balance means having equal amounts of light and dark. After all, you can’t see if it’s to bright or to dark, and sight is important, so this is obviously the correct take on what balance of the Force is! Oh, and Jedi = light side and Sith = dark side. Therefore, you need the number of Jedi and Sith to be exactly the same, which would then mean there is equal amounts of light and dark side, which means that the Force is in balance! Everyone knows I’m right because I used an equal sign!
Ok, now that the sarcasm is out of my system, I’m ready to give my answer for what balance of the Force is. I’m only going to be using Lucas canon (orig 6 plus TCW) to answer this question, mostly because that’s all I fully consider canon.
To start off, let’s review what we know about the Force. (bolded emphasis mine)
“The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together”
“For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. It’s energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Yes, even between land and the ship.”
The Force is not just about or connected to the Sith and Jedi, but to everyone. This is important to remember for understanding what balance is. It is also the main thing I suspect people forget about the Force.
With that reminder out of the way, let’s talk about balance. What does canon have to say about balance?
The main bit of information we get (outside of word of Lucas) comes from the prophecy. This prophecy says that there is a chosen one who will destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force. This would suggest that the two things are linked. Especially since they’re often mentioned together.
“Is he not the chosen one? Is he not to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force?”
“You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!”
This would suggest that Sith are an unbalancing element, and canon seems to support this idea.
Think about it. Are the Sith necessary for the galaxy? Do they at least improve things? The answer to both of the both questions is no. The Sith are not necessary, and they actively make things worse. The Sith do things like end democracy. The Sith have people enslaved. The Sith do things like turn the Republic into a fascist Empire. The Sith do things like having Death Stars created that can destroy entire planets. Who benefits from all this? The Sith, everyone else gets to suffer. The Force is connected to all life. The Sith benefiting while everyone else suffers is not balance. The Sith may not always create imbalance, but they certainly make it worse.
I’ve been talking about the Force out of balance, but do we ever see it in balance? Is the title question of the post ever answered?
Yes, it is.
Balance is when good triumphs over evil.
Balance is when we face and defeat our demons.
Balance is when there is more light than dark.
And last, but certainly not least, balance is when selflessness wins over selfishness.
When good is chosen consistently, again and again, every day, that is when the Force is in balance.
skizzleman!!! such a great addition to hermitcraft